Fernando Pessoa

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. (Roy Croft)

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. (Thomas Mann)

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible. (Osho)

Love is my religion ( I could die for it. - John Keats)

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still. (Leo Buscaglia)

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. (Voltaire)

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. (Henry Louis Mencken)

Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man. (Campion)

Don't tell me you love me; show me that you do. (Omage Jossy)

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. (Ursula K. LeGuin)

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. (Hans Nouwens)

A bell is not a bell until you ring it; A song is not a song until you sing it. Love in your heart is not put there to stay; Love is not love until you give it away. (Oscar Hammerstein II)

You're my blue sky,You're my sunny day.Lord, you know it makes me highWhen you turn your love my way. (The Allman Brothers)

Time is too slow for those who wait,too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. (Henry Van Dyke)

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves. (Julian Barnes)

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. (Marianne Williamson)

We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You can't openyour heart and not have some hurt because you're in a human experience. Even if it's the love of your life and you have many wonderful, deepening, growing, powerful years together, it's a human experience, and that person will pass over. Love takes courage. Be courageous. (Mary Manin Morrissey)

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. (Unknown)

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. (Kent Nerburn)

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it ... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. (Lee Iacocca)

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. (Anita Brookner)